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Choosing your expectations
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If you’re convinced that the world is against you, then
you’ll find plenty of evidence to support your assumption.
If, on the other hand, you’re certain that you’ll encounter
support and assistance, you will.

When you look for excuses and reasons to complain, you’ll
surely find them in abundance. When you look for
possibilities, and goodness, love and kindness, you’ll find
no shortage of those things.

What you see in life is made up largely of what you’ve
already decided to look for. What you experience each day is
driven by what you expect the day to bring.

You can choose the quality of the life you live by choosing
your expectations. You can select the life you experience by
choosing the way you experience it.

Make life helpful and supportive by living in a helpful and
supportive way. Make life good by appreciating and adding to
the goodness.

What you expect at the deepest, most sincere and
unquestioned level, is what you get. So expect the very best
of life, and live to make it so.

Ralph Marston

New joy
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Joy does not come from the way life is. Joy comes from the
way you choose to see, embrace and live life as it is.

Circumstances will change from moment to moment, from day to
day. Yet whatever the circumstances may be, you will always
have the possibility for joy and fulfillment.

Instead of holding on in vain to the fleeting realities in
which you once experienced joy, put new joy into the reality
that is now. Every new moment is a new opportunity for joy.

Joy does not last, nor does it end. It comes to life again
and again in every new moment.

You must let go of the setting sun in order to experience
the joy of the next dawning day. Let go, and let the new joy
come into your life.

Give joy now to what is. Give joy, always, and it will
always come to be.

Ralph Marston

Make life fun
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Instead of looking for reasons to complain, look for ways to
laugh. If you run out of things to do, try smiling.

Have fun, laugh out loud, figure out what you enjoy the most
and get yourself involved in doing it. Challenge yourself to
put more fun into whatever you’re doing.

Do you want to be encouraged, motivated, inspired,
enthusiastic and full of energy? Then spend your time doing
what you enjoy and enjoying what you do.

It’s not really that difficult to transform a dismal,
frustrating, disappointing day into a delightful one. Just
stop focusing so much on the bad stuff and make the choice
to make life fun.

No, it’s not irresponsible or disrespectful to have fun.
What’s truly irresponsible is to go through life with your
joy buried so deep that nobody ever benefits from it.

So go ahead, let the joy flow out from you as you give your
energy and awareness to what really matters. Make life great
by making life fun.

Ralph Marston

Great possibilities
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You will see what you want to see. So what do you want to
see?

You will experience what you expect to experience. So what
exactly are your expectations?

Reality is the way it is. Yet the reality of your life
depends on the way you filter and interpret and respond to
what is.

When you sincerely expect life to be rich, beautiful and
fulfilling, you will absolutely find a way to live it as
such. When you truly seek to see and experience life at its
best, that’s what you’ll end up doing.

No, you can’t magically make things appear just by expecting
them to do so. What you can do, however, is open yourself to
the great possibilities and realities that most certainly
are already here.

Life’s great possibilities are here now for you to fulfill.
Expect them, open yourself to them, see them and live them
fully.

Ralph Marston